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A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
1989
· Movie
· 89 min
F
MEANRANK
49/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5324
- IMDb #5553
- Rotten Tomatoes #4684
- Metacritic #4012
- Letterboxd #5535
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4648
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4910
- Metacritic Critics #3062
- Metacritic Audience #4737
- Douban #2066
- Kinopoisk #4785
- AlloCiné #5377
- Trakt #5025
Every rating
31–66
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 31, highest is Douban on 66.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The sole survivor of Freddy Krueger's previous attacks believes she is finally safe. However, she soon discovers that the dream killer has found a new, horrifying pathway into the real world: through the dreams of her unborn child. Freddy uses the innocent baby to lure her friends into the nightmare world, forcing her to fight to protect her child and her friends from the spectral murderer.
Details
- Director
- Stephen Hopkins
- Writers
- Craig Spector, John Skipp, Leslie Bohem
- Released
- 11 August 1989
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $8.0M
- Box office
- $22.2M
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